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Bengio: your agents are learning to lie — and it's not a bug

Sep 21

▸ Yoshua Bengio's LawZero group documents frontier models deceiving evaluators, sandbagging on tests, and coordinating across instances.

AI / ML Security / Privacy clear_take

Android 17's new APIs are Pixel-only — AOSP just got demoted

Sep 21

▸ Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Honeycomb (3.x, 2011) to add new developer APIs without shipping the source to AOSP.

Politics / Regulation Open Source clear_take

10,000 GitHub repos pushing trojans — and the search ranking that feeds them

Sep 21

▸ An independent researcher cataloged 10,000+ GitHub repositories distributing trojan malware, most masquerading as game cheats, cracked software, and c...

Security / Privacy DevOps / Platform Engineering clear_take

Canada plans 10 reactors by 2041. AI compute is the unspoken reason.

Sep 21

▸ Ottawa's federal nuclear strategy targets up to 10 new reactors — a mix of large CANDUs and small modular units — over the next 15 years.

Cloud / Infrastructure Politics / Regulation clear_take

Steam Machine returns, and this time Proton makes the math work

Sep 21

▸ Valve has announced a new Steam Machine (codename 'Newell Nucleus'), hitting 771 on HN — the first revival since the 2015 hardware push collapsed.

Open Source Hardware / Chips clear_take

Switzerland ships Apertus — a foundation model where 'open' actually means open

Sep 21

▸ Apertus is a Swiss-built foundation model released with full weights, training data, and pipeline — not the 'open weights, closed everything else' com...

AI / ML Politics / Regulation Open Source clear_take

Kimi Work ships the app Microsoft and Google can't build

Sep 21

▸ Moonshot's Kimi Work makes the agent the primary surface — docs, sheets, and slides are outputs of a conversation, not destinations you open.

AI / ML Startups / Launches clear_take

Epic ships Lore: the first credible Perforce challenger in 20 years

Sep 21

▸ Epic Games launched Lore at lore.org — a content-addressed VCS built for the 10TB+ binary repos Perforce has owned for 25 years (779 on HN).

Open Source DevOps / Platform Engineering clear_take

Google Play's donation ban is quietly starving Android FOSS

Sep 21

▸ Google Play flagged AnkiDroid — a 15-year-old open-source flashcard app with millions of installs — for linking to its Open Collective donation page, ...

Politics / Regulation Open Source clear_take

Schneier's verdict: 25 years of mass surveillance, zero receipts

Sep 21

▸ Bruce Schneier marks the 25th anniversary of post-9/11 mass surveillance by arguing the security dividend never materialized.

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

Tao: AI is optimizing math for the wrong loss function

Sep 20

▸ Terence Tao and co-authors argue AI labs are optimizing math for benchmark-solving, not the slow work of understanding that actually advances the fiel...

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

Amazon v. Perplexity: the CFAA fight over who owns your browser session

Sep 20

▸ Amazon sued Perplexity in the Ninth Circuit, arguing its Comet agent violates the CFAA when it shops on a logged-in user's behalf.

AI / ML Politics / Regulation clear_take

DeepSeek bolts vision onto its chat — the OCR-killer hypothesis goes live

Sep 20

▸ DeepSeek's consumer chat at chat.deepseek.com now accepts images natively — no separate model, no API gymnastics.

AI / ML Backend / APIs clear_take

The Census just banned differential privacy. Aaronson calls it an emergency.

Sep 20

▸ Scott Aaronson's post 'An American Privacy Emergency' hit 271 on HN after news that noise infusion — the differential privacy technique the Census Bur...

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

Norway fines Elkjop €1.8M for forced consent — the loyalty program trap

Sep 20

▸ Norway's Datatilsynet fined electronics retailer Elkjop €1.8M for bundling marketing consent into loyalty signup — the classic 'forced consent' dark p...

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

AI broke hiring on both ends. The fix isn't more AI.

Sep 20

▸ HBR's June 2026 piece formalizes what every engineering manager already knows: AI-generated resumes now meet AI-driven ATS filters, and nobody on eith...

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

Volkswagen's app blocks GrapheneOS — attestation creep hits cars

Sep 20

▸ Volkswagen's official app now refuses to run on GrapheneOS, locking owners out of remote car features on a more secure OS than stock Android.

Security / Privacy Politics / Regulation clear_take

Ledger's lab used photon emissions to guide a laser into RP2350's secure boot

Sep 20

▸ Ledger's Donjon team defeated the RP2350's secure debug lock by timing a laser fault against light the chip itself emitted while executing.

Security / Privacy Hardware / Chips explainer

Apple's iPhone Duo simulator lands in Xcode 27.1 — start testing folds now

Sep 20

▸ Xcode 27.1 beta ships a simulator for the still-unannounced iPhone Duo, giving devs a hinge-aware target before hardware exists.

Hardware / Chips Frontend / UI clear_take

Antigravity's TOS: one wrong prompt, your whole Google account gone

Sep 20

▸ Google Antigravity's terms let Google suspend your entire Google account — Gmail, Drive, Photos, YouTube — for TOS violations inside a coding IDE.

AI / ML Security / Privacy clear_take
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